The railway station of Elisenvaara in Kurkijoki (nowadays District of Lakhdenpokhsky, Republic of Karelia, Russia) in the Finnish Karelia ceded to the Soviet Union in The station building was destroyed in bombings in February

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (January 1865 – September was a Finnish jurist and academic, who played a central role in the drafting of the Constitution of Finland in He was the first President of Finland and a nationalist liberal.